Lay discourses and beliefs related to food risks: an Australian perspective

Nutritional altruism and functional food: lay discourses on probiotics.

This exploratory study set out to analyse discourse about 'friendly bacteria' by scrutinising data from focus groups convened to discuss participants' reasons for choosing probiotic food products and to set their use of probiotics in context in relation to other food choices. In discussing food choice and dietary patterns, participants in the five focus groups reported here drew on a major inte...

An Introduction to Lay Epidemiology

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 21، اسفند 1401، 1228-1227 درآمدی بر اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه An Introduction to Lay Epidemiology محسن رضائیان[1] Mohsen Rezaeian واژه اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه برای اولین بار و در سال 1991 میلادی مورد استفاده قرار گرفت [1]. اپیدمیولوژی عامیانه (Lay epidemiology) به فرآیندی اطلاق می‌گردد که به وسیله آن خطرات مرتبط با سلامت، توسط ...

The global food crisis: an Australian dairy industry perspective.

This paper seeks to shed further light on the factors contributing to the emerging global food crisis by examining the reasons for an unusual downturn in dairy food production in Australia, from where 11% of the world trade in dairy foods originates.

Managing food-related health risks

Lay Beliefs 1 Asian Americans’ Lay Beliefs About Depression and Professional Help-Seeking

Guided by a culturally-informed illness representation self-regulation model (CIRSRM), this study analyzed the relations among 223 Asian Americans’ lay beliefs about depression, enculturation to Asian values, and their likelihood of seeking professional help for depression. Participants’ lay beliefs were assessed through an analysis of written responses to open-ended questions about depression....